Friday, August 7, 2009

Yet another storm ...

Central Indiana was rocked with a wicked rainstorm Tuesday, and these images are just a tiny morsel of the outcome. I realize this pales in comparison to other damage I've read about and even seen -- contractors already were doing roof repairs within a block or so of my home two days afterward. These images are just a way of reflecting the storm's ramifications in my very small world.

The garden images are from my backyard; the winds leveled all my blue buttons, but as it turned out, the blues in the circular garden (above) protected the zinias in the center. The zinias in the genus garden (below) had no such protection, and the tall-stemmed raspberry-colored blooms -- like the more frail blues -- were sitting ducks. Leveled.

Nearby in the park, a low branch on a tree near the park access (below, bottom) was split.

Above: The blue buttons and zinias in the genus garden. Zinias toward the front managed to stay upright; not so those behind the blues. Cucumbers, low to the ground on the left, were unaffected.

Above: Another view of the circular garden. The blues took the hit for the zinias.

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I was a longtime career newspaperman -- reporter, writer and editor -- who enjoys photography as a hobby and creative outlet. I grew up in Wisconsin and lived there for 18 years, including stints in news radio right out of college and a year editing a weekly newspaper, for which I also took most of the photographs. After a three-year stint at the daily newspaper in Muscatine, Iowa, I spent 33 years as a reporter, editor and copy editor for The Indianapolis Star before retiring in 2012. In July 2017, after almost 39 years in Indy, I moved to a warmer climate in a rural community outside Raleigh, N.C. Photo Potpourri is an endeavor to meld my prose background with the images I pursue as an avid photography enthusiast -- with a decided emphasis on the images. In the eight years since Photo Potpourri launched, the blog has evolved into a sort of photographer's log, chronicling the opportunities -- public and personal -- that I've had to photograph people, places and things, mostly in and around Indianapolis. I'm open to how the blog may continue to evolve in the months ahead. Twitter: konz2624; Email: joekonzIND@aol.com